Friday Round Up
#Weekend
Awesome events: Savor the weekend at the gold standard of beer festivals today and tomorrow; Rock out with White Ford Bronco tonight at the Bullpen DC!; LOL with Frank Caliendo tonight through the weekend at DC Improv Comedy Club; Or jam with Lupe Fiasco at the 9:30 Club tonight; Challenge yourself tomorrow at a free bootcamp at Meridian Hill Park hosted by MINT; Don’t just race for yourself – #Race4Respect tomorrow morning; You’d be nuts to miss out on some rocky mountain oysters at DC Testy Fest tomorrow! What’s in the stars? Find out at the Astronomy Festival tomorrow on the National Mall; The Adams Morgan Summer Concert Series continues tomorrow!; Keep the block parties going and hood-hop on over to Glover Park for Glover Park Day 2017; Why not score some tickets to see DC United take on LA Galaxy tomorrow night?; With all these weekend events, you’re gonna need to eat at some point.
#RSVP
Lunch & LyonsSkip the line at the cafeteria and join FamousDC for lunch instead. Managing Editor Kathryn Lyons will be lunching and learning with seasoned Public Affairs professionals who have turned their prior Hill and administration experience into “real world” expertise.June 9th 2017
Capitol Hill
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#ORIGINALSERIES
We wanted to know what it was like to be an intern, but not so much that we wanted to find out ourselves. Our intern Josh did the work for us in episode 4 of FamousDC’s non-Netflix original series: Life of An Intern. Miss a few episodes? Binge here.
#LOCAL
Work on Capitol Hill? Ready for a drink? We can help! RSVP for next Thursday’s MedTech Showcase with FamousDC and AdvaMed; Kalorama: for when you’re finished with the White House, but not quite ready for the suburbs; We dare you to stand in the way of our office snack wall; Need a doctor? There’s an app for that; In not shocking news, DC’s rent is top five in burning a hole in your wallet; You can now enjoy lobster rolls by the water; Here’s a preview for the performing arts this summer; It’s about time pets have their own chauffeur service!
#NATIONAL
Happy 37th birthday, CNN!; Ariana Grande’s UK benefit concert will be televised; We’re still watching this epic Bryce Harper brawl; Read before you binge on House of Cards; Everyone is freaking out over this Beatles album; Um…origin of the word “marocain” please; Wonder Woman is on a mission and she’s not stopping; It’s not weird to love where you work; The Wire turns fifteen!
#EDITORSPICK
Flashback Friday: Jonathan Grella is the Executive Vice President of Public Affairs for U.S. Travel and if you think that’s a mouthful, you should hear what he has to say in this interview.
#SOCIALSEEN
We hope you’re enjoying a kid-pee-free summer
Sun’s out everyone’s out!
Any day we get to talk about pizza is a productive day
We have a special report coming your way soon
It’s time to get off your phone and get outside!
Are you on the list? You should be
First impressions matter – just ask that first date that never texted you back
Might as well buy a new house in addition to that new summer wardrobe
#BIRTHDAYS
Famous birthday wishes to Brad Bosserman, Christine Stuckey, Colton O’Donoghue, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Senator Jerry Moran, Del. Madeleine Bordallo, Elizabeth Rojas Levi, Rep. Larry Buschon, Rep. Gregg Harper, Samantha Smith, Katie Kouba, Jeremy Rose, Kyler Truba, Madeline Rullo, Rhett Morgan and Tommy McFly!
#FAMOUSFORDC
Rep. Susan Brooks dominates the emoji game; Dan Schneider puts the dentist before his friends; Raise your hand if you are in Sean Bonyun’s motley crew; Thank you for the frame Jenn Sherman!; We really want to get coffee with Will Allison; Amos Snead owes Mike Ference ice cream; Becky Card has some great new shoes; FYI, Clayton Cox and Rachel Rauscher Cox, it’s only a honeymoon if you return from it. Hurry back!; Are Catharine Cypher and Carolina Hurley reading this week’s Round Up? We hope so; Congrats to Dan Roth and everyone at the Beer Institute for constantly crushing it; You know who deserves a high five? Mike Pepe deserves a high five; Is Chris Gindy on Instagram?; DJ Jamiel is really going to miss Brock — super chill dude with an explosive personality; Cameron Easley’s Tool obsession is getting a little out of hand; So what if we’re crying tears of joy because Dorothy Allen and Travis Cooke are back in DC?; Give Will Marty a high five when you see him — he’s crushing it at his new gig; Everyone at the US Travel Association deserves a huge high five too for dominating their IPW Conference this weekend; You know who rocks? Lauren Zelt rocks; We’re counting down the days till’ Sam and Bubba tie the knot; Happy Pride month to all of our awesome friends; Has Katy O’Donnell solved Big Little Lies?; Beach season is upon us and coincidentally we hear Jenny Kay is moving to Solidcore West End full time; Wishing Milan Dalal an extra happy Friday today; Is Emily Piech still full from last night?; We hope Christian Dibblee is ready for the weekend; Priorities for the weekend include asking Paige Gress about where to find the best gelato in DC; Is Lauren Rosenberg ready for some serious bagel action tomorrow?; Super fly birthday alert: Tommy McFly!; Where does Sean Hayes get his suits?; Do NOT miss Caitlin Huey-Burns‘ latest podcast; Congrats to Whit Askew on making boss moves!
#MAKINGMOVES BY S3 PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Congratulations to Kenny Ames on his new gig as director of client relations at Red Banyan. Ames previously served as director of business development at Fireside21; Best of luck to AGA’s Whit Askew, who starts with Subject Matter this upcoming Monday #DoBigThings; Former Vice President Joe Biden has named his former political director Greg Schultz as the new executive director of his PAC, American Possibilities; POLITICO welcomes Tyler Fisher, Jeremy Lin and Sarah Frostenson to its team as senior news app developer and graphic reporters. Fisher makes the move from NPR, Lin from Bloomberg and Frostenson from Vox; Eric Sutton, former vice president of corporate relations for Transurban, joins FP1 Strategies as senior vice president of public affairs; Wired has promoted recent hire and most recent features editor Maria Streshinsky to executive editor. Wired also adds Jahna Berry and Tom Simonite as head of content operations and senior writer for artificial intelligence. Berry makes the move from Mother Jones and Simonite joins from MIT Technology Review; Former chief of staff to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and executive vice president at Targeted Victory Alberto Martinez has joined the Maverick PAC board of directors; Tony Eberhard, former deputy chief of staff and legislative director for Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), joins the International Dairy Foods Association as vice president of legislative affairs; The Washington Examiner has named former contributor Tom Rogan a commentary writer; The Task Force on American Innovation has added IBM Research’s vice president for strategic partnerships Kathleen Kingscott as its new co-chair, alongside David Isaacs. Isaacs currently serves as vice president of government affairs for the Semiconductor Industry Association; Pallavi Gogoi joins NPR as chief business editor. Gogoi previously worked with both CNN and the Associated Press; The Consumer Specialty Products Association adds Owen Caine and Kevin Serafino as executive vice president of government relations and public policy and director of government relations and public policy. Caine makes the move from his role as director of state government affairs at The Toy Association and Serafino comes from the International Franchise Association, where he served as senior manager for government relations and public policy; MemoryWell adds former Commerce Department deputy chief of staff Theo LeCompte to its team as COO; Dropbox has named Ted Dean as its new head of policy. Dean most recently served as acting assistant secretary at the International Trade Administration; Most recently an editor at large at Fox News Channel, Peter Boyer has joined the growing team at The Weekly Standard; After more than two decades with BBC, Ian Pannell is making a move to ABC News as a senior foreign correspondent; John Martin, most recently legislative director for Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), is joining the FDA as principal associate commissioner for legislation; EMILY’s List adds Julie McClain Downey, previous NH communications director for the Clinton campaign, as national director of campaign communications. John Weber also joins EMILY’s List as a communications assistant. Weber previously served as a press intern for Sen. Check Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Teddy Schleifer, most recently a politics and campaign finance reporter at CNN, is making a move to Recode; And finally, Apple News has named Lauren Kern its new editor-in-chief. Kern has experience working as one of the top editors at New York Magazine and as a former deputy editor at the NYT Magazine (h/t POLITICO).
#BYE
Donut work too hard today.
